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Etsuo Taguchi; Greta Gorsuch; Kristin Lems; Hiroto Toda; Toshiko Kawaguchi; Kirsten M. Snipp – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This paper examines learners' fluency development in L2 silent reading rate and comprehension. In both L1 and L2 readings, a positive relationship between readers' silent reading rate and comprehension has not been as firmly established as theories might propose. Based on Wallot et al. (2014), the paper indicates the need to look at readers'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Morrow, Lesley Mandel, Ed.; Gambrell, Linda B., Ed. – Guilford Press, 2018
Many tens of thousands of preservice and inservice teachers have relied on this highly regarded text from leading experts, now in a revised and updated sixth edition. The latest knowledge about literacy teaching and learning is distilled into flexible strategies for helping all PreK-12 learners succeed. The book addresses major components of…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Evidence Based Practice
Guler, Nilufer, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Teaching English language learners has long presented challenges for teachers tasked with bringing these students to a level of language comprehension comparable to that of native speakers. These challenges and issues can lead to difficulty comprehending core academic topics for those learning the English language. "Optimizing Elementary…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary School Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)

Crawford, Ruth E. – Foreign Language Annals, 1983
Discusses classroom techniques that strengthen reader strategies for discourse comprehension. (EKN)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Instruction, Secondary Education

Bernhardt, Elizabeth B. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1983
Suggests using an immediate recall protocol, in which students read a passage as often as they like, surrender the text and then write down everything they can remember, as a way to circumvent the pitfalls of traditional test design and focus on communication between test and reader. (EKN)
Descriptors: German, Higher Education, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension

Raymond, Patricia Mary – Modern Language Journal, 1993
The question of whether French-as-a-second-language reading can be facilitated by teaching some organizational patterns of discourse was investigated. It was concluded that strategic training is highly complex and difficult and that cumulative evidence is required to assess its usefulness in improving reading recall. (Contains 41 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, French, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension

Wolf, Darlene F. – Modern Language Journal, 1993
Data from a study on second-language reading comprehension show that assessment task type, language of assessment, and target language experience uniformly affect learners' ability to demonstrate their reading comprehension. A literature review is included. (Contains 57 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Second Language Instruction
Mickel, Stanley L. – 1984
Students can be taught to read Chinese more efficiently and accurately by using the specific capabilities of the right and left hemispheres of the brain. The right hemisphere is the site of image and pattern recognition, and students can be taught to use those capacities to process individual characters efficiently by watching for the element of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Graphemes, Neurological Organization, Reading Comprehension

Statman, Stella – English Language Teaching Journal, 1981
Describes thought processes which the teacher should engage in and which should govern choice of material before writing or selecting exercises for English as a second language class. Shows how to clarify the purpose of exercises by examples. (BK)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Lesson Plans, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Instruction
Cicurel, Francine – Francais dans le Monde, 1991
An interactive approach to teaching French second-language reading comprehension is described. The method emphasizes involving the readers in the comprehension process and encouraging them to draw on prior learning to create hypotheses about the text's content. A four-stage instructional process is outlined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, French, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
Williams, Huw – MEXTESOL Journal, 1984
Causal conjunctions that form a grammatical bridge between simple and complex sentences can be either plus or minus causal conjunctions. The category of plus causal conjunctions includes a "because" group (since, as, because of, owing to, due to, as a result of, as a consequence of) and a "so" group (therefore, hence, consequently, accordingly, as…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Conjunctions, English (Second Language)

Benoussan, Marsha – Foreign Language Annals, 1983
Explains the construction and use of three advanced-level English-as-a-foreign-language reading comprehension exercises, using a combination of multiple choice and cloze formats. (EKN)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Comprehension
Ghosn, Irma K. – 1996
A technique for helping English-as-a-Second-Language students learn to write accurate paraphrases and summaries, free from personal interpretation, is described. Students first read, in pairs, a paragraph that has a main idea and requires some inferential thinking, especially about the tone and/or purpose. After a specific period of time, students…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Reading Comprehension

Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-Peng – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1993
Children's literature, with its complex structures and discourse strategies, helps beginning language students develop reading strategies and begin understanding discourse strategies in native speech. Tsao's notion of discourse analysis is used to introduce topic deletion in a sample of literary texts. (Contains 25 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Reading Comprehension

Kern, Richard G. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
Some of the cognitive and affective factors influencing second language reading comprehension are reviewed, and an instructional technique designed to both guide the reading process and develop comprehension at several levels is described. Teachers are urged to develop process-oriented reading comprehension activities in collaboration with…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Learning Motivation, Reading Comprehension